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After the American vice president Kamala Harris presented at the end of last week her economic program as a candidate for the position of the president of the USA, we wonder if what is called the Simion Plan still looks like a utopia - as...

The International Energy Agency (IEA) yesterday kept its forecast for global oil demand unchanged in 2024, but downgraded estimates for 2025, citing the impact of Chinese consumption, according to Reuters.

The Swiss franc reached, yesterday, the highest level against the euro, in the last almost ten years, in the context of the turbulences on the financial markets, against the background of fears regarding a possible recession in the USA and the...

Demand for critical minerals such as copper, cobalt, lithium and nickel has been increasing in recent years, with these raw materials being used in a range of new technologies, from electric cars to wind turbines, which are becoming increasingly...

The main indices of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) marked a succession of new historical records in the first half of the year, in a general international context conducive to risky assets, boosted by internal elements such as the financial...

The boom in US oil production will continue for at least the next eighteen months, according to Goldman Sachs, writes Business Insider.

Commodity markets faced selling pressure last week due to uncertainties over the upcoming US presidential election, concerns over the Chinese economy and rising agricultural production in Brazil, according to an analysis by Anadolu news agency....

• Prashant Kothaari, Alpha Alternatives: "All of Trump's policies will probably be inflationary; the dollar is likely to depreciate against gold" 

The US stock market is sailing to new all-time highs amid concerns about the impact artificial intelligence may have on corporations and expectations that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates, which would reduce funding costs and would...

Bitcoin is up around 60% this year, with the world's most famous cryptocurrency hitting a new all-time high in 2024, especially on the back of the US Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) approval of spot ETFs on Bitcoin and the...

The U.S. stock market is facing its biggest decline since fall 2023, amid higher-than-estimated inflation that has dampened expectations of a near-term rate cut by the Federal Reserve, as well as intensifying tensions in the Middle East.

The main indexes of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) marked a succession of historical records, the first quarter of the year, in a general climate favorable to risky assets.

Crude oil futures fell in foreign markets yesterday as lingering US inflation dampened interest rate cut optimism. However, stock market quotes are holding close to six-month highs as investors consider a potential attack on Israel by Iran,...

China is by far the largest e-commerce market in the world, as Statista Market Insights figures show.

The uptrend in the US stock market does not appear to be over, the S&P 500 will continue to rise through at least 2026 and the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates more than markets currently expect, the team at Capital Economics believes...

The indices of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) had significant increases in March, above the appreciation of international markets, in a month in which the attention of investors in our capital market was captured by the notices published by...

Commodity prices will rise this year as U.S. and European central banks cut interest rates, helping to support industrial and consumer demand, according to Goldman Sachs Group Inc.

The spot price of gold yesterday for the first time exceeded the threshold of $2,200 an ounce, after the previous day the US central bank (Fed) announced that there are prospects for three interest rate cuts this year, which suggests that the...

Bitcoin is up an impressive 50% this year, with the world's most popular cryptocurrency recently hitting a new all-time high of $73,620, according to Investing.com data.

The Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) began, this month, a discussion on the timing of the reduction of interest rates, according to the words of an official of the institution, quoted by Reuters.

The Bank of Japan and the Swiss National Bank are the major central banks most likely to change the course of monetary policy in the next two months, according to analysts cited by CNBC, who note, however, that the changes these institutions will...

The slowdown of the world's major economies, lower demand for crude oil from China, lower production and the possibility of supply shocks are elements that will define the oil market this year, according to experts quoted by the international...

Equity returns for European bank shareholders appear to have already peaked, according to JPMorgan Chase strategists, who believe the prospect of European Central Bank (ECB) interest rate cuts this year will reduce earnings for the sector,...

The S&P 500 index closed above the 5,000-point mark for the first time in history last Friday, after fourteen weeks of growth in the last fifteen, during which the main basket of shares in the United States marked an advance of 22%....

Consumer prices in China continued to fall in January, recording the sharpest decline in 14 years, according to official data released yesterday, putting pressure on the Beijing government to adopt more aggressive measures to revive the...

The indices of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) had strong increases in the second half of last year, well above the appreciations of the major western markets, especially on the background of the listing of Hidroelectrica, to which were added...

Russia overtook Saudi Arabia last year to become China's biggest oil supplier, according to customs data from Beijing cited by CNN.

The price of gold rose in the final months of 2023 on massive purchases by central banks and growing investor fears about the Israel-Hamas and Russia-Ukraine conflicts, according to an analysis by US investment bank JPMorgan Chase & Co .,...

Our real estate market continues to have a high growth potential, even though the pace may be slower this year compared to pre-pandemic trends, according to Colliers consultants. Specialists indicate that 2024 could prove to be better than 2023...

The indices of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) had appreciations on the line, in the last quarter of last year, in tune with the evolution of the large stock markets in the West, to which some internal elements were added, which favored the...

After one of the most difficult years for investors in the last century, in which stocks and bonds suffered double-digit declines, in 2023 the two asset classes had a comeback. The evolution was supported by the robustness shown by the United...

The indices of the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) had linear increases in the last month of last year, in an international climate favorable to risky assets, on top of which some internal elements were superimposed that supported share prices....

Lower interest rates by the world's major central banks, which favors equity markets, high-yielding dividend distributions by Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) companies, progress towards moving our market into the MSCI Emerging Markets category...

The year 2024 will not be great for stocks, believes Marko Kolanovic, chief strategist for global markets at JP Morgan, writes Business Insider. In a note to clients published mid-week, Kolanovic wrote that investors should prefer cash over...

A historic drop of $4.6 trillion in the capitalization of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange is being felt in the city's financial industry, according to a Bloomberg analysis, which shows that 30 local brokerage houses have closed this year after a...

Rising global supply and an uncertain demand outlook pushed oil prices to a five-month low last week, with crude headed for its seventh straight weekly decline, according to international media.

The listing of Hidroelectrica, which put the Bucharest Stock Exchange on the radar of new institutional investors and attracted new capital flows to the market, the undervaluation of companies, high dividend distributions and the improvement of...

The price of gold reached a new all-time high yesterday, with the spot price of the precious metal temporarily surpassing the $2,100 per ounce mark, and analysts expect the appreciation not to stop there, according to an article published by...

Markets are counting on the Federal Reserve to have ended its rate hike cycle, which creates important conditions for the S&P 500 to appreciate significantly next year, according to several articles published late last week by Business...

A month after the October 7 attack by the Palestinian militant group Hamas in Israel, which turned into a war, investors are gradually returning to the country's financial markets.